Connections with Central Government Advocated Canton, June 1, "It any of the Third Powers wish to safeguard their interests in China, they must have direct connection with the new Central Government," declared Captain Saida, spokesman of the Japanese Information Bureau, in a speech at a reception given by the Kwangtung Provincial Government to the Chinese and Japanese press, After outlining the relations between Japan and China for the past 2,000 years, the spokesman asserted that the present Sino-Japanese conflict was not due to actual troubles between the two parties, but owing to "mischief of Third Powers who attempt to fish in the troubled waters."
He said behind the Chungking Government today stood such Powers as Great Britain, France, the United States and Soviet Russia, who were helping China to wage the war of resistance.—Reuter.
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